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Website Change Detector

Monitor a webpage for changes by comparing content hashes

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Website Change Detector Tool

Monitor a webpage for changes by comparing content hashes

Tool ID

website-change

Credential Required

No

Input Properties

Property Type Required Default Description
url string Yes URL of the webpage to monitor
stateFile string Yes File path to store the last-known hash (e.g. /tmp/intouch/site-hash.txt)
selector string No CSS-like tag to focus on (e.g. 'main', 'body', 'div'). Empty = full page

Execution Steps

  1. detect-change (python) — python

Published Outputs

Vendor

Blue Isle Software

Publishes

The keys a later task may reference as {{taskName.key}}. Referencing anything not listed here resolves to nothing at run time.

Input Properties

Every property this tool accepts, from its own tool.iml.

Property Type Required Default Description
url string yes URL of the webpage to monitor
stateFile string yes File path to store the last-known hash (e.g. /tmp/intouch/site-hash.txt)
selector string no CSS-like tag to focus on (e.g. 'main', 'body', 'div'). Empty = full page